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Present number of shareholders: 116.
Number of men employed by company: 29.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 9,870 oz. 18 dwt.; £10,978 11s. 6d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: 12,707 oz.; £14,620 7s. 4d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £4,897 13s. 5d.
Total expenditure since registration: £15,095 1s. 8d.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: £246 12s.
Amount of cash in hand: £2 16s. 9d.
Amount of cash on deposit: £3,000.
Amount of debts directly due to company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company: £19 3s. 9d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.
I, Henry Gilfillan, of Auckland, the Secretary of the Golden Belt Gold-mining Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company on the 31st December, 1916; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.
H. GILFILLAN, Secretary.
Declared at Auckland this 11th day of January, 1917,
before me--E. Mitchelson, J.P.
BOROUGH OF NEW PLYMOUTH.
COPY OF SPECIAL ORDER PASSED BY THE NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.
THAT, on and after the 3rd day of April, 1917, the total number of members of the New Plymouth Borough Council be eight (exclusive of the Mayor); and that, in pursuance of the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, the whole Council shall go out of office on the above date, and there shall be a fresh election of Councillors.
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution passed by the New Plymouth Borough Council at a special meeting held on the 11th day of December, 1916, and confirmed as a special order at an ordinary meeting held on the 8th day of January, 1917.
Dated this tenth day of January, 1917.
CHAS. H. BURGESS,
Mayor of the Borough of New Plymouth.
CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.
RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.--ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION LOAN No. 3.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1916, the Christchurch City Council hereby resolves as follows:
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of sixty thousand pounds (£60,000) authorized to be raised by the Christchurch City Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of the further distribution and supply of electricity from the Government generating-station at Lake Coleridge, and the purchase and erection of all plant, materials, and things necessary and incidental thereto, the said Christchurch City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one hundred and seventy-five ten hundred and twenty-fourths (175/1024ths) of a penny in the pound upon the unimproved value of all rateable property comprised within the City of Christchurch; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 30th day of June in each and every year during the currency of the loan, being a period of fifteen (15) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.
The common seal of the Corporation of the City of Christchurch was hereto affixed in the presence of--
H. HOLLAND, Mayor.
HY. R. SMITH, Town Clerk.
We hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted at a meeting of the Christchurch City Council held on the 20th day of December, 1916.
Dated this 21st day of December, 1916.
H. HOLLAND, Mayor.
HY. R. SMITH, Town Clerk.
KAITIEKE COUNTY COUNCIL.
EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING HELD ON THE 19TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1916, AT 10.30 A.M.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and of all other powers in that behalf enabling, the Kaitieke County Council hereby resolves as follows:
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest and other charges on the loan of £350, authorized to be raised by the said Council, under the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, and under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of paying the balance due by the Council on a levy made by the Taumarunui Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on the 9th day of June, 1916, for the purpose of the erection of the Nurses' Home, drying-room, and the purchase of a range therefor, the purchase of a hospital-site, and all things incidental thereto, the said Kaitieke County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one seventy-eighth (1/78th) of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Kaitieke County; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six (36) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.
I hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of a resolution passed by the Kaitieke County Council on the 19th day of December, 1916.
30 E. T. BEAVEN, Clerk.
ROBERT CAMPBELL & SONS (LIMITED).
In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908.
NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to section 307 of the Companies Act, 1908, that ROBERT CAMPBELL & Sons (LIMITED), a company incorporated in England, and for some years past carrying on business in New Zealand, will voluntarily cease to carry on business in any part of New Zealand from and after the expiration of three months from this date.
Dated at Dunedin this 22nd day of December, 1916.
ROBERT CAMPBELL & SONS (LIMITED),
By their Attorneys,
JOHN ROBERTS.
32 W. O. McKELLAR.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between THOMAS PHILIP VAUTIER and JOHN CORRY, carrying on business as the Hawke's Bay Fisheries Company at No. 54 Courtenay Place, Wellington, has been dissolved as from the 30th day of December, 1916, both the said partners retiring from the said business, which will be carried on under the said name by ANTONIO PAINO, VINCENZO BARNAO, SALVATORE BARNAO, and MARTIN BECK. All the debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said JOHN CORRY.
Dated the 12th day of January, 1917.
T. P. VAUTIER.
JOHN CORRY.
Witness to signatures of T. P. Vautier and John Corry--W. F. Ward, Solicitor, Wellington. 33
MATAMATA COUNTY COUNCIL.
RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.--OMAHINE - TE POI ROAD LOAN.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Matamata County Council hereby resolves as follows:
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of two thousand five hundred pounds (£2,500), authorized to be raised by the Matamata County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for road-metalling improvements, the said Matamata County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny three-eighths in the pound (1½d. in the £1) upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Omahine - Te Poi Road Loan Special Area, which comprises all that area of the Patetere Riding in the Matamata County commencing at Te Weraiti Trig. on the county boundary, and at the north-eastern corner of the Patetere Riding; thence following the riding boundary in a westerly direction to the western corner of Section 4087, where the said section joins Section 4313 lb;